Test code should use Instrumentation, which allows you to inject your code into the application and control it through the methods there.
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Mathieu Plourde <[email protected]>wrote: > > For the listview part, I found it. I used performItemClick. > > But for generating keystrokes, nothing seems to work. I tried using > onKeyDown and onKeyUp, but it just doesn't do anything (and I need to > generate the key strokes from the application). > > The only thing that seemed to have a result is > activity.dispatchKeyEvent. But that seems to only work within the > focused view. Like if the view with the focus is a listview, it will > jump from listitem to listitem upon generating the Key UP and Key DOWN > events. However, if I want to jump from an edittext to another > edittext, it will do nothing. As if it stays within the focused > view... > > Anyone knows the correct way to do this? Or a workaround? > > Thanks. > > (I'm making something for test automation purposes that is recording > and copying what a user is doing on the emulator. Like if a use > presses "DOWN" on his keyboard, the focus will jump from a widget to > another. Sadly, I can't find anything that does the same thing > programmatically.) > > > On Jul 2, 5:22 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mathieu Plourde wrote: > > > 1. How do you programmatically generate key strokes? I found some > > > tutorials where it says to use IWindowManager, but that doesn't exist > > > anymore in 1.5. (And WindowManager doesn't provide any function to > > > generate key strokes) > > > > For your own activity, you could try manually calling onKeyDown() and > > onKeyUp(), though I have not tried this. > > > > To try to control other applications, you cannot generate keystrokes, > > AFAIK, probably for security reasons. > > > > > 2. How do you programmatically select one item from a ListView? Is it > > > possible to do it with the index of the list item (it's position in > > > the list) > > > > If by "select" you mean "have it appear with the orange selection > > highlight", call setSelection() on the ListView. However, this will only > > work if the activity is not in touch mode -- in touch mode, there is no > > orange selection highlight except briefly when list items are clicked. > > > > -- > > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com| > http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > > > Android Development Wiki:http://wiki.andmob.org > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
